Donald Snider
Principal
Email: LawOfficeofDonaldSnider@optonline.net

Practice Areas: Real Estate; Real Estate Litigation; Real Estate Transactions; Business; Business Litigation; Business Transactions; Environmental Land Use; Real Estate Development; Arbitration; Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Admitted: 1969, New York; 1972, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1973, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1974, U.S. Supreme Court; 1976, Florida; 1977, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 1982, U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York; 1994, U.S. Tax Court

Law School: Harvard Law School (LL.B/JD., magna cum laude, 1968)

College: New York University, B.A., Philosophy-with honors, cum laude, 1965

Member: The American Bar Association (Member - Sections on: Litigation; Real Property, Probate and Trust Law; Land Use Regulation and Dispute Resolution); New York State Bar Association (Member:- Sections on: Commercial Law; Federal Litigation; Real Property Law; Real Estate Litigation; Environmental Law; Trial Lawyers Division); The Association of The Bar of the City of New York (Member - Litigation Section; Real Estate Section; Committee on Professional Responsibility; Chairman Subcommittee on Attorney Competence, 1985-1986); Westchester County Bar Association (Member, Ethics Committee); White Plains Bar Association; Westchester Women's Bar Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; The Florida Bar.

Biography: Phi Beta Kappa. Recipient, Debating Society - Speaker Award, Founders Day Award, 1965; Authors' Special Assistant: Casner and Leach, Cases and Text on Property, 2nd Ed. 1969 and 3rd Ed., 1984; Advisor, "Restatement of Law Second, Property," 1970-1977; Author: "The Special Concerns of Counsel When Representing Small Store/Non AAA Shopping Center Tenants," Practicing Law Institute Article, 1975 (reprinted 1976-1982 of Commercial Real Estate Leases); "Analysis of New Law Designed to Curb Reduction of SROs," New York Law Journal Article, August, 1985; "Negative Declarations Under Environmental Quality Review Act," New York State Bar Association Law Journal Article, December, 1985 (Reprinted in 6 New York Land Report 20109-20122); "Strict Liability for Contaminating States Groundwater Resources," New York Law Journal Article, April 1, 1986; "SEQRA: Declaration of Nonsignificance and Issuing a Negative Declaration," New York State Bar Journal Article, July, 1986; "Materiality Standard Under Martin Act," New York Law Journal Article, July 27, 1988; "Prolegomenon to Understanding the Developer's True Statutory Responsibilities Under SEQRA," Touro Law Review, Vol. 5-2, Spring, 1989; Faculty: Practising Law Institute, Commercial Real Estate Leases, 1975-1984; Fordham Law School Continuing Legal Education, Practical Real Estate Litigation, 1986-2000; Speaker and Panelist: "Expediting the Environmental Permitting Process," Annual New York State Bar Association Meeting, Environmental Law Section, 1984; "Environmental Law Update - 1988" and "Representing Developers Under SEQRA," New York State Bar Association Seminars in Syracuse and New York City, co-sponsored by the Real Property Law Section and the Environmental Law Section (CLE); Panelist: "Coping With SEQRA," Annual Planning and Zoning Institute, 1985; "Using Stimulation and Visualization Techniques to Communicate Zoning and Land Use Concepts in Administrative Legislative and Judicial Proceedings," New York County Lawyers Association, 2003. Member, Board of Governors, 1986-1988 and Vice Chairman, Law Committee, 1984 of Fenway Golf Club, Scarsdale. Judge, First Year Moot Court Oral Arguments, Pace Law School, 2002-2007. New York Court Appointed Arbitrator, Supreme Court, Westchester County, "Attorney-Client Fee Disputes," 2003-2007. Member, Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association.

Born: October 16, 1943

ISLN: 903579146